The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-23


has right to lay in the custom house at
Kansas City three years yet, and can be all
taken out or one barrel ut time. This
whisky Is the finest in the land, and If you
can find me trade / will give you 8 per
cent commission.
Talmage on Prohibition.
The Rev. DR.. T. De Witt Talmage,
since his recent return from two
weeks tour in the West, has given his
impression of the workings OF pro-
hibition as follows: al give it as my
deliberate opinion that ali honest man
cannot get drink of intoxicants in
Kansas or Iowa. l say an honest man.
/ saw not one intoxicated man in those
States, nor met ore on whose breath
was the odor of rum, No liquor is
sold there. The rum shops are all
closed. In order TO get intoxicating
liquor man must go to drug store
aud take solemn oath before God that
he is sick and requires it as a medi-
cine, and there are but very few men
who are willing to commit perjury. If
the druggist trifle with the law and
sell to man without such assurance,
or prove himself an evader Of the law.
he loses his certificate of pharmacy
and is put out of the drug business.
A clergyman told me thatin his cityin
Kansas he had seen but two intoxicat-
ed men in fifteen months and they had
rum jugs they had brought with them
from the East. AS our train of cars
started out of Kansas City,
Missouri, to cross over into
Kansas, the porter of the dining
car came through and asked the pas
sengers if we would like to order some
beer. What do you mean? l said
lie answered, I'VE can't sell any beer
after we cross into Kansas / tell you
prohibition does prohibit. And all the
talk YOU hear to the contrary is dis
honest talk. Moreover prohibition
has come there to stay. The young
men of those States are proud to be
called .prohibitionists. In their COM
mon schools the children are taught
the evil influence of strong drink, and
all young men in Kansas and Iowa are
either prohibisionists or loafers. One
reason for the present immense emil
grafton ofgood families to those States
is that there are fewer temptations for
young people. Fathers and mothers
have bethought themselves what a
grand thing it would be to rear their
families away from the everlasting
stencil of rum, with which so many Of
our cities are accursed. The pauper-
ism, the crime, the vagrancy of those
States are less and less. Soon their
criminal courts will be disbanded, and
their jails will be empty. State by
State prohibition will be apopted,
and then we shall have Ma
tional prohibition. The stronger States
will help the weaker. Kansas will
help New York. The congressman
and senator's at Washington who are
afraid of the rum trafiic,will finally be
outvoted by congressman and senators
who are not afraid. The country dis
tricts will be heard from, and they al
ways stand for sobriety. The mighty
dominion Of alcoholism will be bro
ken. The evil will become SO great
that an indignant nation will rise and
stamp it out of existence. DO not be
respondent because the work is tedi-
GUS and protracted. 1t is considered
great thing if a rail-train under
Roadway can be stopped at distance
twice its length. Remember that
drunkenness with its long train of dis
asters has been under full Roadway
for centuries, and no decided effort
has been made to arrest 1t until with
in seventy years. II 1t stop within a
1 can,urv n will atom in less than malt